Will, Kate share new Prince George portraits

Royal fans around the world got an early Christmas present Saturday when new photos of Prince George of Cambridge were released by his doting parents.

​Prince William and pregnant Duchess Kate released three official photos of the little prince, soon to be 17 months old, for Christmas.

They were taken in November and show him in a courtyard in Kensington Palace, where he lives with his parents in London.

The pictures show he's growing to look more like Will at about the same age. He's sitting on some steps and wearing a blue/gray embroidered sweater vest over a white shirt with a Peter Pan collar, navy blue shorts and knee socks. His cheeks are still baby-fat full and as rosy as if he has on makeup.

Official pictures of George are few and far between, to the great regret of royal fans who can't get enough of the chubby-cheeked toddler, the third-in-line to the throne.

The last time the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released official commissioned photos was for George's first birthday, in July, when he was snapped toddling on a path at the Natural History Museum in London. He visited a butterfly exhibit there and also was pictured with his parents playing with one of the colorful insects.

The first officially sanctioned photos of George were made in March, when he and his parents and their black cocker spaniel Lupo were photographed at a window at Kensington Palace just before they all (except for Lupo) went on three-week tour of New Zealand and Australia.

That tour, in April, was the occasion for George's first official royal photo call, when he was photographed during a play session with Kiwi babies and later at the Sydney Zoo with a rabbit-like bilby named after him. He was then 9 months old.

Prince George in Kensington Palace in late November 2014.(Photo: TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, PA Wire)

As it turned out, another pre-tour photo of the three of them also was made, as thank-you gifts for their hosts and other officials they met Down Under. That photo was not released publicly but it turned up on Twitter and then disappeared.

Here and there, paparazzi on the prowl have snapped George out with his mother or his nanny. But mostly these photos are officially frowned upon by Will and Kate, who have said they want the child to grow up in a relatively normal atmosphere unmolested by paps jumping out of bushes.

Every so often Will or Kate give out tidbits of information about their baby, as Will did during their whirlwind trip to New York and Washington this week. At one point, during a new-tech event he attended, Will confided that George loves to play games on his parents' iPad, according to the pool report on the event.

On Friday, when Will visited a charity that supports homeless teens in Birmingham, England, he talked to a young mother whose baby had fallen asleep despite the noise in the room, according to the local paper, the Birmingham Mail.

'Has she drifted off?,' Will asked her. 'How did you manage to get her to do that? George doesn't do that. He'd never do that if there was this much noise.'

One reason for these new pictures is that George may not be seen in public during the actual Christmas holidays.

Prince George in Kensington Palace in late November 2014.(Photo: TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, PA Wire)

The family is expected to spend most of that time in their just-renovated country retreat, Anmer Hall on the queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, which is even more private and remote than the London palace.

Will and Kate are expected to join the queen on Christmas Day for church services at Sandringham, which is an annual photo op for the media, but George is not likely to be with them in church.

As usual, Will and Kate brought home loads of presents given to them for George during their 48-hour, three-day trip to America, including a mini-T-shirt from 'King' LeBron James at a NBA game they attended in Brooklyn.

James couldn't resist Photoshopping it onto a picture of George on his Instagram page.

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